Many years ago while bow hunting from a tree-stand I watched a nice sized deer sneak in almost a belly-crawl within 2 or 3 yards past two guys on the ground.

Both men were wearing orange caps and creeping slowly through the woods but weren't carrying any weapons that I could see. With the opening of gun season just a day or two away I figured they were scouting for a good place to put their tree-stands for gun season.

I couldn't help but snicker at how they never realized just how close they were to that deer but then I had to wonder how many times the very same thing had happened to me.